Hello everyone, for those who still don't know me, the most important thing to know is that I am a musician but especially a crazy JAZZ.
I would like to share with you all the jazz currents in my post to come, and I really hope it will interest you.
part 1 : New Orleans
The New Orleans style, or "Classic Jazz" began with brass bands that animated the dance evenings in the late 19th century. Many instruments had been recovered from the Civil War (horn, clarinet, saxophone, trombone, tuba, banjo, bass, guitar, drums, and sometimes piano).
The musical arrangements varied enormously from one performance to another and improvised solos enriched the melody. This brand new music introduced ragtime syncopations into popular melodies, hymns, marches, working songs, and so on.
Which instruments?
The horn (or trumpet) was the main theme, supported by the clarinet that brought melodic ornaments striding from bass to treble.
Trombone, tuba and bass provided the bass lines, while the rhythm section went back to the banjo (or guitar), drums and sometimes to the piano.
"Dixieland"
The styles "New Orleans" and "Dixieland" are sometimes confused: the word "dixieland" refers more specifically to jazz played by white musicians (the first wax-engraved music is that of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, in 1917 at Chicago).
In 1901, the cornetist Joseph Oliver was crowned "king of jazz" and took the nickname "King Oliver". As early as 1923, his recordings contrast with the primitive polyphony of early pioneers (among the musicians of his group: the cornetist Louis Armstrong and his future wife, the pianist Lil 'Hardin).
The closure of Storyville, a "hot" district of New Orleans, in November 1917, caused the joblessness of many musicians who joined the big stars already settled in Chicago: the pianist Jelly Roll Morton, the clarinetist Sidney Bechet - who performs for the first time in Europe in 1919 with the Southern Syncopated Orchestra - and trumpet players King Oliver and Louis Armstrong.
here is a song from this beautiful days :
